As I pass it I feel as if I saw a dear old mother sweet in her weakness trembling at the approach of her dissolution but not appealing to me against the inevitable rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience and pointing to a hopeful future.
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters always...
I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
We all labor against our own cure for death is the cure of all diseases.